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Apocalypse Postponed

The Daily Telegraph’s Damian Thompson (a religious man, incidentally) weighs in here: …I suppose if I had to boil it down to one observation, it would be that just because people say they “believe” that such-and-such a thing will happen … Continue reading

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Oh Well…

On to 2012, I suppose… Via the Daily Telegraph: Inhabitants of New Zealand, scheduled to be among the first to meet the apocalypse according to a US fundamentalist preacher, this morning confirmed they were still in existence as the appointed … Continue reading

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Forget 2012, The End is Even More Nigh…

Via the Independent: The end of the world is nigh; 21 May, to be precise. That’s the date when Harold Camping, a preacher from Oakland, California, is confidently predicting the Second Coming of the Lord. At about 6pm, he reckons … Continue reading

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If Only It Were About The Science

Cross-posted over at the Corner Britain‘s winter snows generate an interesting reaction from Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill. Here’s an extract: …I’m not one of those people who believes snowfall necessarily disproves every claim made by warming-obsessed climatologists. Rather the snow crisis … Continue reading

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Apocalypse Now (Please)

I’ve long suspected that amongst those who believe that the apocalypse is just round the corner, a certain vanity may well be at work – the belief that their time is somehow special. Now there’s this from Scientific American Some … Continue reading

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Apocalypse Postponed

The reason that stories of apocalypse run through so many religions is partly due, I suspect, to the persistent and widespread belief that this wicked old planet needs a sharp sheep-and-goats moment and, also, to the fact that the end of the world is … Continue reading

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